📘 Master Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension for CAT 2025-26

Excel in CAT 2025 with Courseware on Verbal Ability & Reading Comprehension for CAT, designed to help you master the VARC section with precision and confidence. This Courseware provides access to solved CAT 2020–2024 papers (VARC section) with detailed solutions and analytics, giving you invaluable insights to fine-tune your preparation.💡 Dive into over 150 assisted problem-solving videos that bring complex ideas to life, making even the most challenging topics easy to understand.

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📑 Table of Contents

Preface to the Twelfth Edition
Preface to the First Edition
Acknowledgements
Key Issues in Preparation
Frequency Analysis Table

📖 Part 1: Building Skills for Reading Comprehension

INTRODUCTION
1 Introduction to Reading Comprehension
2 The Seven Dimension Approach to Better Reading Skills
3 Theory of Reading Comprehension
4 Illustrative CAT Passages (Solved)

PRACTICE QUESTIONS – BUILDING SKILLS FOR READING COMPREHENSION
Level of Difficulty – I
Level of Difficulty – II
Previous Years’ Questions from CAT

📘 Part 2: Verbal Ability

SECTION 1: VOCABULARY
1 Word List I—High Frequency Words
2 Word List II—Medium Frequency Words
3 Word List III—Low Frequency Words
4 Roots, Prefixes, Suffixes and Foreign Words
5 Words and Phrases often Confused

SECTION 2: VOCABULARY-BASED QUESTIONS
6 Synonyms
7 Antonyms
8 Odd Man Out
9 Analogies

SECTION 3: FILL IN THE BLANKS
10 Sentence Completion
Level of Difficulty—I
Level of Difficulty—II
Previous Years’ Questions from CAT

SECTION 4: PARAGRAPH JUMBLES
11 Paragraph Jumbles
Level of Difficulty—I
Level of Difficulty—II
New TITA Type Questions
TYPE I AND II Exercises on Paragraph Jumbles
Previous Years’ Questions from CAT

SECTION 5: SENTENCE CORRECTION
12 Sentence Correction
13A Phrasal Verbs
13B Phrasal Verbs
14 Paragraph Completion/ Last Sentence of the Paragraph
15 The Missing Sentence of the Paragraph
Irrelevant Statement Questions
Summary of the Passage Questions

📕 Part 3: Verbal Reasoning

CRITICAL REASONING
1 Critical Reasoning/Paragraph Comprehension
Previous Years’ Questions from CAT

📝 Part 4: The CAT Experience

📄 Part 5: CAT Papers with Solutions (2022–2024)

1 CAT Paper 2022 (Shift 1) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
2 CAT Paper 2022 (Shift 2) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
3 CAT Paper 2022 (Shift 3) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
4 CAT Paper 2023 (Shift 1) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
5 CAT Paper 2023 (Shift 2) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
6 CAT Paper 2023 (Shift 3) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
7 CAT Paper 2024 (Shift 1) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
8 CAT Paper 2024 (Shift 2) VARC Section Questions and Solutions
9 CAT Paper 2024 (Shift 3) VARC Section Questions and Solutions